The pay in the EU is so much better than the UK, that once you're experienced and willing to move, you can have a much better quality of life outside of the UK. I wonder if this plays into the statistics...
Posts by UndergroundMan
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Just 22% of techies in UK aged 50 or older, says Chartered Institute for IT
Microsoft officially hangs up on old Skype phones, users fuming
I realised last night that the RTX Dualphone 4088 no longer works. The device shows as offline and refuses to connect. I live overseas and bought one for myself and one for my parents so we can talk for free. They're older so this phone is ideal compared to a fiddly smartphone that they can't work with. Microsoft/Skype have blown our means of communication out of the water.
Though Microsoft/Skype announced the death of SkypeKit, it's far from clear on the Skype website that it would affect the 4088. I mean... I never thought of it as a Skype "landline" phone because it doesn't use a landline, it only connects via wifi.
Amazon have kindly offered a refund. As of ~10am, the phone now lists as unavailable so at least new buyers won't be duped. I contacted the seller, who responded that they too hadn't anticipated the service termination. Saying I'm disappointed in Skype's (aka Microsoft's) handling of this is an understatement.